Count lines which are separated by line breaks in a cell or a range
This article is talking shout how to count the number of lines which are separated by line breaks in a cell or a range of cell by using formula in Excel.
Count the number of lines in a cell
To count total lines in a cell, you can use the combination of the LEN, SUBSTITUTE and CHAR functions.
1. Please apply the below formula:
2. And then, drag the fill handle down to the cells that you want to apply this formula, and all lines in each cell have been counted, see screenshot:
Explanation of the formula:
- LEN(A2): count the number of total characters in cell A2;
- SUBSTITUTE(A2,CHAR(10),""): is used to replace all line break characters with empty characters in cell A2;
- LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,CHAR(10),"")): count the number of all the characters in cell A2 without line break characters;
- LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,CHAR(10),""))+1: the first count subtracts the second count, and add 1 to get the result.
Note: With the above formula, you will get the result 1 if a cell is empty, to overcome this problem, please apply the following formula:
Count the number of lines in a range of cells
If you need to count the total number of lines from a range of cells, the following formulas ca help you.
1. Enter or copy the below formula into a blank cell where you want to output the result:
2. And then, press Ctrl + Shift + Enter keys together, and the number of the total lines in a range has been calculated, see screenshot:
Note: To fix the above formula when there are blank cells in the range, please use the below formula:
Relative functions used:
- LEN:
- The LEN function returns the number of characters in a text string.
- SUBSTITUTE:
- The Excel SUBSTITUTE function replaces text or characters within a text string with another text or characters.
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